Free Beacon Reviews KJP's New 'Book' "Independent" ... Hilarious!

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A Book So Bad It Shattered Liberals' Faith in DEI
REVIEW: 'Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines' by Karine Jean-Pierre
Andrew Stiles
November 2, 2025

Karine Jean-Pierre can't stop making history. Earlier this year, the former White House press secretary became the highest-ranking openly queer, French-born black woman with a hyphenated surname to publicly renounce the Democratic Party for being mean to Joe Biden. She is the only black female lesbian immigrant to publish a book about her time in the Biden administration. It is the worst political memoir ever written in the history of the English language.

This is not hyperbole. It's an especially vacuous genre and highly competitive, to be sure. But imagine writing a book so bad it could shame Democrats and liberals into second-guessing their cult-like devotion to DEI. That's what Jean-Pierre has done with Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.

In 2022, Jean-Pierre's promotion to White House press secretary was hailed—by Democrats and journalists (to the extent there's a difference)—as a triumph for diversity and representation. She is now widely viewed, in the words of a reporter who worked with her, as "the most incompetent and irrelevant White House press secretary ever." Former colleagues describe her as "ineffectual," "unprepared," and "kind of dumb." Looking back on the Great Awakening of 2020, one can't help but marvel at what Jean-Pierre has managed to achieve.
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One of many examples: After using the phrase "Joe Biden, blah, blah, blah" to deflect a simple question about the thesis of her book, Jean-Pierre told Chotiner the "broken White House" referenced in the subtitle is actually a reference to Donald Trump's administration—not the one in which she actually served. It's a strange thing to lie about—something a clueless person might blurt out when they get flustered. But in the author's defense, even a semi-talented communicator would struggle to defend this drivel.
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Independent, which is both mercifully brief (172 pages) and intolerably long, defies credulity at every turn. Jean-Pierre claims she never noticed Biden's cognitive decline despite meeting with him "at least once a day" for two-and-a-half years. (Unfathomable to anyone who saw him speak once.) Her observations reflect an alarming disconnect with reality. She denounces the media (fair enough) for "grilling" Democrats and "soft-balling" Republicans (um, what?). She recounts her disbelief when—days after that "one wobbly debate" where Biden bragged about beating Medicare, blah, blah, blah—not a single reporter asked a question about his "landmark efforts to bring about social justice." What else, she wonders, could explain this "ferocity" and disrespect, if not the media's latent disdain for powerful black women?

Like her rambling press briefings, Jean-Pierre's prose is riddled with contradictions that boggle the mind. Democrats should have been more loyal to Biden. That's why she left the party. She's an independent now because "no entity deserves blind loyalty." Multiple interviewers have noted the discrepancy. Jean-Pierre, who holds a master's degree from Columbia University, doesn't follow. Her blind loyalty to Biden might have something to do with the fact that Dr. Jill Biden was one of her "greatest sources of support" when the racist media was being unfair. The book makes more sense if you imagine the relentlessly vindictive spouse hovering over the keyboard.
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She is hopeful the book will provoke "more nuanced political conversations." It has certainly provoked a conversation—shockingly nuanced in the context of Democratic Party politics—just not the one she was expecting.

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